1945 deaths

Archduchess of Austria (1864–1945)

German military officer and aviator (1895–1945)

German Nazi military officer and SS Regiment/Brigade Commander (1895–1945)

Italian entrepreneur (1866–1945)

American physiologist (1871-1945)

Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1900–1945)

American politician and tennis player (1879–1945)

older sister of Anne Frank (1926–1945)

French physicist

Prince of Albania (1876–1945)

Canadian painter and writer (1871–1945)

English psychologist (1863-1945)

Austrian-German SS officer, SS-Group Leader and Lieutenant General of the Police, temporary leader of Operation Reinhardt (1904–1945)

Prime Minister of France (1876–1945)

French-British SOE spy

German general (1895–1945)

Russian artist (1862-1945)

French author and journalist (1909–1945)

German general (1888–1945)

German dramatist (1878-1945)

French glass designer (1860–1945)

Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)

Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945)

American writer and actor (1889-1945)

Kazakh traditional folksinger (1846-1945)

German politician (1898–1945)

French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp

Soviet poet (1883–1945)

Czechoslovak German nation politician (1898-1945)

Soviet general (1906–1945)

German Holocaust perpetrator (1883-1945)

German politician and member of the 20 July plot (1884-1945)

German general, head of Nazi Action T4 euthanasia program for children and the handicapped (1899–1945)

French sinologist (1878-1945)

Scottish athlete, sprinter, Olympian, Protestant missionary (1902-1945)

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1872-1945)

Serbian artist and poet (1909-1945)

Soviet sniper

Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald.

German general (1887–1945)

English poet and journalist (1870–1945)

Hungarian literary scholar and writer (1901–1945)

Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1891-1945)

Vietnamese emperor (1899-1945)

Russian naval engineer and mathematician (1863-1945)

German SS officer, commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp (1905-1945)

Russian entrepreneur, organizer of film production, screenwriter, director

Polish politician, three times the Prime Minister of Poland (1874–1945)

German resistance fighter (1907–1945)

SS physician (1910-1945)

German general and last Reichsführer-SS (1903-1945)

Bulgarian politician and archaeologist (1883-1945)

German police officer (1894-1945)

British colonial administrator (1858-1945)

Austrian physician (1872-1945)

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1871-1945)

Novelist, short story writer (1873–1945)

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882-1945)

German tank commander during World War II (1921–1945)

German general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates (1899–1945)